Paulo Maluf

Paulo Salim Maluf (pron. IPA: [ˈpawlu saˈlĩ maˈlufi]), (b. 3 September 1931, São Paulo) is a Lebanese Brazilian corrupt politician with a career spanning over four decades and many functions, including state governorship (São Paulo), presidential candidacy and mayor of the city of São Paulo. He has been plagued throughout his political career with substantial allegations of corruption, but nevertheless, has only been convicted once, in 2001. Due to the nature of the Brazilian judicial system, only final convictions (without possibilities of appeal) are considered. He is currently a leader of Progressive Party of Brazil (PP), heir of the old National Renewal Alliance Party (ARENA). Image File history File linksMetadata 1009MalufACruz2. ... Image File history File linksMetadata 1009MalufACruz2. ... Look up pronunciation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words see here. ... September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... The title of this article contains the character ã. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Sao Paulo. ... Flag of São Paulo See other Brazilian States Capital São Paulo Largest City São Paulo Area 248,176. ... The title of this article contains the character ã. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Sao Paulo. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Progressive Party of Brazil is Brazils oldest party with a continuous history, though renamed several times. ... The National Renewal Alliance Party or Aliança Renovadora Nacional (ARENA) was a conservative political party that existed in Brazil between 1965 and 1979. ...

Biography

Paulo Salim Maluf, the son of Lebanese Christian immigrants Salim Farah Maluf and Maria Stephan Maluf, graduated 1954 in engineering at the University of São Paulo (USP), where coincidentally he was a colleague of the late Mário Covas, another important Brazilian politician who would later become one of his biggest political rivals. The University of São Paulo (in Portuguese Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is one of the three public universities funded by the State of São Paulo. ... Mário Covas Júnior (Santos, 21 April 1930 - São Paulo, 6 March 2001) was an important Brazilian politician. ...

Thanks to his friendship with the then military president Artur da Costa e Silva, he was appointed mayor of São Paulo in 1968, replacing the very popular Faria Lima. In a manner very similar to New York’s Robert Moses, he suspended the construction of the São Paulo Metro and built one of the most controversial constructions of Brazil: Costa e Silva elevated expressway, also know as Minhocão (“Big Earthworm” in Portuguese). This expressway is seen as responsible for the degradation of a great area of São Paulo´s downtown by placing a high-traffic elevated road in the middle of the city. General Augusto Pinochet (sitting) as head of the newly established military junta in Chile, September 1973. ... ... The title of this article contains the character ã. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Sao Paulo. ... Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, most commonly know as Faria Lima, is one of the many important arteries within the city of São Paulo, Brazil. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Robert Moses with a model of his proposed Battery Bridge Robert Moses (December 18, 1888–July 29, 1981) was the master builder of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and other suburbs. ... The interior of a metro station in São Paulo The São Paulo Metro (Portuguese: Metropolitano de São Paulo, commonly called Metrô) is the city of São Paulos rapid transit system. ... Artur da Costa e Silva, pron. ... A typical expressway in Santa Clara County. ... Families   Acanthodrilidae   Ailoscolecidae   Alluroididae   Almidae   Biwadrilidae   Eudrilidae   Exxidae   Glossoscolecidae   Lumbricidae   Lutodrilidae   Megascolecidae   Microchaetidae   Ocnerodrilidae   Octochaetidae   Sparganophilidae Earthworm is the common name for the larger members of the Oligochaeta (which is either a class or subclass depending on the author) in the phylum Annelida. ...

In 1972, following his mayorship, he served as secretary of transport of the state of São Paulo. He would then succeed in being appointed state governor for the state of São Paulo in 1978, during which one of the most notable accusations of corruption against him emerged, concerning the oil company Paulipetro. This was a state company founded by Maluf during his tenure as governor with the purpose of digging the state for oil and which consumed around US$500 million whilst digging up 21 holes and finding nothing but a few pockets of natural gas and water. Flag of São Paulo See other Brazilian States Capital São Paulo Largest City São Paulo Area 248,176. ... The oil industry is a type of industry which brings petroleum to a market. ... Pracsamp 07:34, 16 February 2007 (UTC)— Pumpjack pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario Ignacy Łukasiewicz - inventor of the refining of kerosene from crude oil. ... Natural gas is a gaseous fossil fuel consisting primarily of methane. ...

He was then successfully elected a federal deputy with a record 672 629 votes in 1982 and was the military's preferred presidential candidate for the 1985 presidential elections, where he stood a good chance of winning until his PDS party (as the current PP was known at the time) splintered into the PFL, resulting in the election of Tancredo Neves. He has since then only successfully managed to get himself elected once, in 1992, again as mayor of São Paulo, despite his participation in every single state and mayoral election for São Paulo state and São Paulo city, with the exception of 1989 when he was a presidential candidate, although the election of Celso Pitta can be directly attributed to his endorsement. The Party of the Liberal Front (Partido da Frente Liberal) is a political party in Brazil. ... Tancredo de Almeida Neves (March 4th, 1910 - April 21, 1985) was a Brazilian banker and political figure. ... The title of this article contains the character ã. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Sao Paulo. ... Flag of São Paulo See other Brazilian States Capital São Paulo Largest City São Paulo Area 248,176. ... The title of this article contains the character ã. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Sao Paulo. ... Celso Pitta was the mayor of Sao Paulo, Brazil from 1996 to 2000. ...

One notable example of the allegations of corruption surrounding his name is the Ayrton Senna tunnel, which passes underneath the Ibirapuera park and has a cost per kilometer bigger than that of the Channel Tunnel (it is alleged that the tunnel cost over US$400 million more than it should). Under dispute is Maluf's personal wealth, which critics attribute to his corruption scandals and proponents attribute to his family companies (which are, admittedly, quite large). He was also recently part of an extensive investigation regarding money laundering involving bank accounts of himself and family in Jersey (one of the Channel Islands). He has been convicted of corruption multiple times, but only in 2001 was the sentence final, with no possibility of appeal. At the time he was forced to pay approximately R$500.000 to the state. Many of his alleged crimes cannot be prosecuted, due to the nature of the Brazilian statute of limitations. Even if he were to be convicted, there would be serious questions about whether he would serve jail time, as he is over 70 years of age. Ayrton Senna da Silva (IPA: ) (March 21, 1960–May 1, 1994), better known as Ayrton Senna, was a Brazilian Formula One triple world champion. ... Map of the Channel Tunnel. ... Money laundering is the practice of engaging in financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source and destination of the money in question. ... The Channel Islands are a group of islands off the coast of Normandy, France, in the English Channel. ... A statute of limitations is a statute in a common law legal system that sets forth the maximum period of time, after certain events, that legal proceedings based on those events may be initiated. ...

In early September 2005, Paulo Maluf and his son Flávio Maluf were temporarily arrested by the Brazilian Federal police, under the charge of intimidating witnesses of an ongoing investigation. They were only incarcerated for a few weeks. 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in September September 28 : Constance Baker Motley September 25 : M. Scott Peck September 25 : Don Adams September 20 : Simon Wiesenthal September 14 : Robert Wise September 10 : Hermann Bondi September 8 : Donald Horne September 7 : Moussa Arafat...

So notorious is Maluf's reputation that in Brazil the verb malufar was created, meaning "to steal public money". This verb is also sometimes used outside Brazil, with one example being the French newspaper "Le Monde". [1]

In the 2006 elections, Maluf ran for a seat in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. Since 1994, as a result of a constitutional amendment which reduced the presidential term to four years, all federal and state elections in Brazil have coincided. ... The Chamber of Deputies of Brazil (Portuguese: Câmara dos Deputados) is a federal legislative body and the lower house of the National Congress of Brazil. ...

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